27 JANUARY 1990, page 13

`the Art Of The Impossible'

This is the full text of the first speech by Vaclav Havel as President of Czechoslovakia MY dear fellow citizens, For 40 years you heard from my prede- cessors on this day......

Safety Match?

Stephen Robinson finds that the careers of political activists depend on the South African cricket tour Johannesburgh THREE hours before Mike Gatting and his team touched down......